Sunset at Chajnantor
Sun is setting over the stunning Mars-like landscape of the Chajnantor plateau, located at 5000 metres altitude in the Chilean Andes, some 50 km away from San Pedro de Atacama. In the picture, taken from a nearby 5300-metre hill known as “Cerro Chico” (literally, the “Little Mountain”) towards the south-east, the APEX telescope is visible. APEX is a 12-metre antenna, operating at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths and it is the pathfinder experiment for ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, currently under construction at the same site.
Credit:
ESO
About the Image
| Id: | apex-hh-sunset |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 14 June 2010, 17:21 |
| Size: | 6144 x 3763 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Desert, Chajnantor |
| Type: | • Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory • X - APEX |
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